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giua@school: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

giua@school is an electronic school register (registro elettronico) for Italian schools. It covers courses, classes and multiple school sites, accounts for teachers, staff and administrators, pupil absences and justifications, grades and observations, interview booking, notifications, class documents, forms, and data import and export. It was first built for one school and is increasingly configurable so that other institutes can use it. It is a web application based on the Symfony PHP framework, installed from a ZIP archive or with Docker on the school's own server.

The software is developed by the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore "Michele Giua", an Italian secondary school that has used it since the 2017/2018 school year. It is published on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0-or-later licence and appears in the Developers Italia catalogue and the European Commission's open-source solutions catalogue. Because the school installs it itself, pupil data stays on infrastructure under its control, and the documentation describes no vendor-hosted service. The documentation contains no privacy statement of its own, so data protection remains with the school that operates it.

Sovereignty score
94 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-2100
    Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    EU-only hosting
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-6100
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 14, 2026
Headquarters
IT (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model
Open-source, distributedVerified by hand
Data hosting
EUVerified by hand
Open-source
YesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant
YesVendor-stated
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The European alternatives to giua@school come from our knowledge base of over 9,300 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with giua@school

giua@school is headquartered in IT and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so giua@school scores best on data residency.

giua@school is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs giua@school together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to giua@school?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to giua@school include Anton, ANTRAGO and Brian. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to giua@school?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to giua@school include Chamilo and Claroline Connect. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is giua@school GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

giua@school is headquartered in IT (EU) and hosts data in EU. It is also open-source, so you can self-host it. That makes giua@school an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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